Word: zest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appropriately described by gargantuan adjectives" in a New York Herald Tribune editorial yesterday, Professor Barbour "was physically huge and his frame was matched by tremendous energy and zest for life, a great heart, a mind of extraordinary depth and penetration, and a brilliant and undeniably pungent tongue...
...report . . . states nothing new nor original," the Maroon continues. "It lacks the zest, the pioneering spirit so necessary to any revolutionary doctrine. . . At best it simply restates the findings of other universities which for a quarter century have pondered the problems of a general education. . . It's sheer plagiarism from Chicago, Columbia, St. John's, Wisconsin...
...Anchors Aweigh" is the umpteenth movie about two sailors on a furlough, Despite the hackneyed plot, however, it has more zest, vitality, and originality than the great majority of its predecessors. Although Frank Sinatra gets top billing, the film is a personal triumph for Gene Kelly...
Last Chance. But last week Joe Kennedy seemed to have his old zest again. In a midnight blue Chrysler, he rode like a Paul Revere through the textile, shoe and machinery-producing towns in Middlesex, Essex, and Berkshire counties. All the way from Greenfield to Salem, in some 30 speeches within ten days, he spread the alarm...
...Army employs many English-speaking Chinese girls, mostly from Hongkong, Shanghai and Tientsin. They have been brought up under Western influences. They like to dance, date boys, kid around. But when they dated U.S. soldiers, Chungking confused them with the jeep girls who ply their trade with great zest and professional abandon...